Pulling World Bank Indicators Without Hiding Missing YearsUse the World Bank API well: follow pagination, preserve missing observations, and label observation, release, and retrieval dates separately.3 min read·buildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.devSep 25
How to join World Bank indicators by country and yearA reproducible JavaScript workflow using ISO-3 codes, explicit years, and the World Bank API3 min read·buildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.devSep 24
“Latest” has three dates in global data (and dashboards should show them)When a country dashboard says latest, it is easy to read that as current. In a global data set, those words can mean different things. A value usually needs at least three dates to be understood: 1. T3 min read·buildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.devSep 24
Why my interactive globe felt slow on a trackpadPreserve fractional wheel input, scale zoom by camera height, and load globe textures without making the camera wait. Lessons from Global Data Tracker.5 min read·buildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.devSep 19